Obesity and the NHS: ‘People here are in big trouble’

Obesity rates have quadrupled in the past 25 years – one in four adults are now overweight. But as demand for treatment grows, hospital budgets are shrinking. In the first of three reports on the pressures facing the NHS, Amelia Gentleman talks to doctors and patients at one of the UK's busiest diabetes clinics

Why adding a life matters

The government's decision to invite anti-abortion, pro-abstinence group on to a key advisory body should cause concern